"French" man Jamal Derrar jailed for 25 years for burning a Muslim teenage girl to death Sohane Benziane, 17, was killed in October 2002 on a rundown housing estate in Vitry-sur-Seine, near Paris. Marches across France in protest at Sohane's killing in February and March 2003 led directly to the creation of feminist organisation Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores Nor Slaves).
The organisation campaigns, in particular, for the rights of women from ethnic and religious minorities such as Sohane, a Muslim of North African origin. - (Newsroom) - (EU) - (Burned Alive!)

Juwan Deering Arrested for Setting Fire that Caused 5 Children to be burned alive Friday, a man was charged with murder after he was accused of setting fire to a Royal Oak Township home in 2000, killing 5 children under the age of 12. Juwan Deering was arrested outside a friend’s home in Detroit. He was then charged with arson and 5 counts of felony murder.
Investigators believe Deering set the home on fire because of a drug debt involving the father of 4 of the children, who didn’t even live in the home. The father has since died. Juwan Deering has a criminal history involving drugs and has been in and out of jail. Deering was charged in the deaths of Taleigha Dean, 10; Craig Dean, 8; Aaron Dean, 7; Eugene Dean, who celebrated his sixth birthday hours before he and several of his siblings were killed in the blaze and Michelle Frame, 11, the family's cousin.
- (Newsroom) - (crime) - (Burned Alive!)

Bond Denied To Abdool Charged With Burning His Girlfriend To DeathFla. -- Emotional relatives of a 17-year-old teen are shocked and saddened after learning of her murder. The man accused of dousing her with gasoline and lighting her on fire made his first court appearance. Amelia Sookdeo's burned body was found off a County Road on Saturday. Thursday night, police arrested 19-year-old Dane Abdool and charged him with first-degree murder. He then confessed to the crime." Police said Abdool told them the couple got into an argument after Amelia told him she was pregnant with his child. He admitted stopping at a 7-Eleven to buy duct tape and gasoline, before driving to a remote stretch of CR-545, tying Amelia up and setting her on fire. In court, a judge said Abdool did not deserve bond. - (Newsroom) - (crime) - (Burned Alive!)

Woman burned during sexual assault diesA 22-year-old Fort Dodge woman who was sexually assaulted and then critically burned when her house was set on fire has died, a hospital spokesman said Friday.
The woman, who had been hospitalized at University Hospitals in Iowa City since Jan. 8, died Thursday night, spokesman Tom Moore said. Firefighters found her bound in the basement of her burning home. A passerby had noticed smoke coming from her house. At least two separate fires damaged the house, investigators said.
Police issued an arrest warrant for Sessions Lamont Harper, 34, of Fort Dodge.
He was arrested on Jan. 11 in Des Moines. He's currently charged with first-degree kidnapping, attempted murder, third-degree sexual assault and first-degree arson. - (Newsroom) - (Burned Alive!) - (crime)

Juan Nieto 70 years for rape, burning attack A man convicted in the abduction, rape and burning of a Green Bay woman in 2003 was finally sentenced to 70 years. Juan Nieto, 25, became the second man sentenced to prison for the attack. Gregorio Morales, 29, sentenced last month to a 50-year prison term, had pleaded no contest to reduced charges in a plea deal last April and testified against Nieto..
The jury found Nieto guilty attempted first-degree intentional homicide, kidnapping and three counts of second-degree sexual assault with the use of force.
The two men worked at a Brown County dairy at the time of the crime.They abducted the woman from a nightclub parking lot, took her to a rural area, raped her, doused her with lighter fluid and set her on fire before leaving her for dead. She survived and managed to get to a nearby house for help. - (crime) - (Burned Alive!)

One of Zimbabwe's last remaining white farmers was strangled and burned to death in an attack inside his home yesterdayDon Stewart, 68, was set upon shortly before dawn in the bedroom of his tightly-guarded homestead near Norton, 25 miles west of Harare. He was one of the last 300 white farmers left in Zimbabwe. There were 4,000 five years ago. Police insisted that Mr Stewart's murder was the work of common criminals and had "no political motive". Nothing besides a hunting rifle was stolen. His assailants were unable to penetrate the barred windows and reinforced doors of his homestead on Ingwerati dairy farm. Instead, they entered through the roof and strangled Mr Stewart in his bed. Then they covered him with a mattress, doused it in petrol and set him alight. Mr Stewart, who was born in Zimbabwe, lived alone. After the strain of five years of continuous violence against white farmers, his wife, Margaret, had moved to Britain. - (José María) - (Africa) - (Burned Alive!)

Jury selected in rape, burning of Green Bay woman by Juan and GregorioGREEN BAY, Wis. - A jury of eight women and six men, including two alternates, was selected in Waukesha County Thursday for the trial of a man accused in the abduction, rape and burning of a woman in Brown County in August 2003.Juan Nieto, 25, faces trial on charges of being party to attempted first-degree intentional homicide, kidnapping and five counts of second-degree sexual assault with use of force. Gregorio Morales, 28, pleaded no contest in April and is to be sentenced in December. Morales is expected to testify in Nieto's trial. Prosecutors said the two men, who worked at a Brown County dairy, abducted the victim from the parking lot of a Green Bay nightclub, drove her to a rural Rockland field and sexually assaulted her, and then she was doused with lighter fluid, set on fire and left for dead. - (NNN Newsroom) - (Burned Alive!)

Man Sentenced for Attempting to Burn Family You may remember the Beaufort man who tried to set his wife and children on fire last spring. Today Oscar Lane was sentenced to two 12-year sentences to run concurrently for breaking into his wife's home and then dousing her and their children with gasoline before trying to set them on fire.A police officer who happened to be patrolling the area found the woman running from her home.Lane ran off but later turned himself in. - (Tyrone N. Butts) - (TNB) - (crime)

Mexican Indian man burns his wife alive
An Indian man beat and then burned his wife alive after an argument in the southern state of Chiapas, police said Monday. Andres Gomez Santiz tied his wife, Maria Lopez Diaz, to a post, dumped gasoline on her and lit her on fire on Sunday in their house in the community of Jocoljo, according to a police statement. - (Svejk) - (Mexico) - (Burned Alive!)

Witnesses had said thatJuan Robles Gutierrez helped pull passengers from the bus before it was fully engulfed in flames on Interstate 45 near Wilmer the morning of September 23rd. But Dallas sheriff's Sergeant Don Peritz says investigators could find no proof of that. The 37-year-old driver was detained by immigration officials after the fire as an illegal immigrant. - (Svejk) - (Invasion!) - (Burned Alive!)

Police Say Man Walks Into Store, Sets Wife On Fire - Woman Suffers Third-Degree Burns Over Half Of Body - Lost that lovin' feelin' Police in Prince George's County, Md., said a man accused of walking into a mobile phone store, dousing his wife with gasoline and then setting her on fire is now behind bars. Roger Hargrave, 33, was arrested shortly after 11 p.m. Monday in District Heights, Md. Witnesses told police that Hargrave walked into the T-Mobile store in Clinton, Md., where his wife worked, and began throwing gasoline on her. Witnesses said the woman ran outside and Hargrave followed her and set her on fire with a match. Hargrave faces charges of attempted murder and assault. - (Gman) - (crime)- (Burned Alive!)

Police: Man set his girlfriend on fire after she broke off engagement Police in Macon, Ga., arrested a man Monday who allegedly doused his girlfriend with gasoline and set her on fire after she broke off their engagement. Jomekia Pope, a 29-year-old who has a history of domestic abuse, faces charges of aggravated assault and arson stemming from a horrific assault Sunday at his ex-girlfriend's home. Latosha Taylor, 26, was in critical condition undergoing her third surgery Wednesday, her stepfather Harold Banks said. Taylor suffered second- and third-degree burns on more than 95 percent of her body. - (Smilin' Jack)

Burned Alive! Hunt for man accused of burning ex-girlfriend"She's burnt so bad." Family members struggle to hold it together after Latonya Harris is attacked in her home. Police say gasoline is thrown on her face and upper body, then she's set on fire.Derks struggles to hold it together for Harris' kids. "He stood there and watched her burn." Kids, 6 in all, ages 1 to 14, watching their mom burn. Derks says some tried to stop it. "Everytime they would try to put her out, he would hit one of them." Police are searching for 29 year old Darnell Perkins. "There are now 3 warrants for his arrest for attempted murder and burglary first." - (Tyrone N. Butts) - (TNB)

30 burned to death in Congo village attack
AN armed gang burned more than 30 civilians to death in a weekend attack on a village in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN mission in the DRC (NONUC) said overnight.

Man Accused Of Setting Girlfriend On Fire Back In WisconsinThe man accused of burning his girlfriend to death has been returned to Milwaukee. Tommy Wells is accused of setting Helen Clark-Finch on fire last month, during a fight. She died a few days later. Wells was arrested two weeks ago in Arizona, and brought back to Wisconsin. Bond was set at $100,000. - (forum)

Mat 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire

Man Accused of Setting Girlfriend on Fire - "burned to the bone" A Wilmington woman is trying to recover from massive burns while her boyfriend sits in jail, charged with setting her on fire. Perlie Nelson is in the Chapel Hill Burn Center where doctors say she is literally burned to the bone.Nelson lived with her boyfriend, John Lee Michaels, in Greenville. - (Brewski)

Guatemala Mob Burns Alive Six Suspects
An angry mob in a remote Guatemalan settlement set fire to six people accused of forming a band of robbers, killing four as authorities tried to stop the violence, police said Sunday. A 14-year-old boy was among the four people killed in the Friday vigilante
attack in Cruz Chich, about 125 miles northwest of Guatemala City. Two severely
burned survivors were transported to a hospital in the Guatemalan capital for
treatment, said Faustino Sanchez, an officer at the federal police base in Santa
Cruz del Quiche.

Stephen Soules gets life for raping and killing a Western Kentucky University student in her dorm room A Scottsville man who admitted raping and killing a Western Kentucky University student in her dorm room will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance for parole. Barring the emergence of new evidence, the sentencing of Stephen Soules yesterday concluded the investigation into the 2003 arson attack on Melissa "Katie" Autry, officials said. Autry, 18, was raped, sodomized and set on fire in her dorm room on May 4, 2003. She suffered third-degree burns and died three days later at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital. - (forum) - (Black on White) - (Burned Alive)

Charge Added Against Morales in brutal kidnap-rape-burn caseOne of the two men charged in the brutal attack on a Brown County woman is facing another criminal charge. The Brown County district attorney filed an additional charge of second-degree sexual assault of an unconscious victim against Gregorio Morales.The charge stems from the August 2003 attack when a woman was kidnapped outside a Green Bay nightclub and sexually assaulted in a rural Brown County field before being set on fire.Morales is scheduled to go on trial April 6th.The other suspect, Juan Nieto, is also in custody. - (Burned Alive)

Men Face Judge In Brownstown Home Invasion and Gang Rape of 13-year-old Girl - and set her on fire Two men face a judge in a preliminary examination on Wednesday for allegedly attacking a teenage girl during a home invasion. Ronald Kinney, 18, and Andres Montgomery, 25, were charged last month with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, home invasion and assault with intent to do great bodily harm. Police said Kinney and Montgomery entered through an open door at a home where a 13-year-old girl was sleeping. The two men allegedly raped the teen and set her hair afire before leaving the home with the girl's computer, police said.

"Breaking up is hard to do" Murder charges for Mobile teen accused of setting his girlfriend on fireWith 75 percent of her body covered in third degree burns, 18-year-old Deanna Stoutamire fought for her life for about a week, but passed away Sunday morning. Her boyfriend ("with friends like these..."), Kendrick Hamilton, is now facing the most severe charge, capital murder. Prosecutors claim Hamilton intentionally set Stoutamire on fire inside her apartment."She was a good person. She don't never mean no harm to nobody," said her girlfriend Regina Privett "She was like, 'Kendrick be hitting on me' and I was like I thought she was telling a story, you know, and then she showed me some bruises and I told her she needed to break up with him," said Privett. - (Tyrone N. Butts)

Spanish-speaking Morales accused of kidnap, rape and burning of woman - trial delayed until AprilThe trial of Gregorio M. Morales, along with Juan Roberto Nieto accused of the rape and burning of a woman in August 2003, will be delayed until April. Morales, appearing in court with an interpreter, also agreed to keep his attorney. Katie Sepich was last seen alive on August 31, 2003 at a party in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In a crime very similar to the Green Bay abuduction and rape, cops say she was kidnapped and taken to an abandoned dump in the desert. Police say she was strangled, and then her body was set on fire. Unfortunately, Katie did not survive.

"Feel
the warmth of Mexico": vigilante mob burned two federal agents to
death
MEXICO CITY -- Nearly 1,000 police and federal agents tore through a town
outside Mexico City, smashing gates and breaking down doors in a hunt
for the leaders of a vigilante mob that burned two federal agents to death.
The killings have shocked and horrified Mexico, all the more so because
they were captured by news cameras, then broadcast on all major networks.
A young man, his face bloody and swollen, can be seen struggling to tell
a television reporter that he is an undercover federal agent. Then a mob
pours gasoline on him and a fellow officer and sets them ablaze. -
(NNN Mexico)

Gregorio
Morales, suspect in rape, attack appears on charges A
man accused of abducting, repeatedly raping and trying to kill a Green Bay woman
made his first appearance in court. Gregorio Morales, 27, was arrested
in New Mexico last month and waived extradition. Another man suspected in the
case, Juan Nieto, 23, remains at large. Morales said that he and Nieto
drove the woman into rural Rockland and took turns sexually assaulting her. He
did not discuss how or why the woman was doused
with lighter fluid and set on fire. - (forum)